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New Release: Novas Got Nerve – BL Jones

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Novas Got Nerve

QSFer B L Jones has a new queer superhero urban fantasy out: Novas Got Nerve. British superheroes, melodramatic Mages, snarky secret agents, one hell of a found family, and a whole load of weird people. Also, there’s a duck. This is the painfully bizarre origin story of Rexley Nova. When Rex was four years old, he became one of the world’s first superhumans. When Rex turns twenty, he feels the drive to use his scientifically given abilities to protect the world. He leaves home to become a member of the Secret Superhero Security team, alongside three of his friends and … Read more

Review: Queer Weird West Tales Anthology

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Queer Weird West Tales Anthology

Genre: Weird Westerns, Anthology LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Bi, Gay, Gender Fluid, Lesbian, Trans FTM, Trans MTF Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Frontiers have always attracted the Other – where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know. Authors include: Julie Bozza, J.A. Bryson, Dannye Chase, S.E. Denton, Miguel Flores, Adele Gardner, Roy Gray, KC Grifant, Peter Hackney, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M Harris, Justin Warren Jackson, Toshiya Kamei, Catherine Lundoff, Bunny McFadden, Angus McIntyre, Atlin Merrick, Eleanor … Read more

Queer Weird West Tales Anthology

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Queer Weird West Tales Anthology

QSFer Julie Bozza is the editor of a new queer western anthology: Queer Weird West Tales. Frontiers have always attracted the Other – where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know. Authors include: Julie Bozza, J.A. Bryson, Dannye Chase, S.E. Denton, Miguel Flores, Adele Gardner, Roy Gray, KC Grifant, Peter Hackney, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M Harris, Justin Warren Jackson, Toshiya Kamei, Catherine Lundoff, Bunny McFadden, Angus McIntyre, Atlin Merrick, Eleanor Musgrove, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Lauren Scharhag, Sara L. Uckelman, … Read more

New Release: Deuces Are Wild – O.E. Tearmann

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Deuces Are Wild - O.E. Tearmann

QSFer O.E. Tearmann has a new queer cyberpunk book out: Deuces Are Wild. They say to really free your body, you’ve gotta free your mind… America is waking up. People are standing up for each other and a future worth living in. But they can’t do it alone. Now, they don’t have to. The Democratic State Force is calling in favors across the nation. Members of Base 1407 and hundreds of other teams across the country are teaching the citizens how to fight back on their terms, with tactics that hit the Corporations right where it hurts–in the wallet and … Read more

New Release: Salvage – R J Theodore

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Salvage - R J Theodore

QSFer R J Theodore has a new queer sci-fantasy steampunk book out: Salvage. Peridot is headed for its second cataclysm. War has broken ancient alliances, sealed borders, and locked down the skies. The Five, Peridot’s alchemist gods, have seen one of their number die and another fall in their efforts to protect their world from invaders beyond the stars. Defeated and diminished, they have ceased to answer the prayers of their people and have left the rapidly unraveling world to fend for itself. Talis and the orphaned crew of the lost airship Wind Sabre have a plan to set things to rights, … Read more

NEW RELEASE: Bright Future Anthology

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Bright Future Anthology

QSFer SI Clarke and six other authors have a new diverse, inclusive, hopeful sci-fi anthology out: Bright Future. Spaceships, space stations, and distant planets. Stampeding elephants, a talking dog, and a hungover captain without a ship. An ensign far from home, a stowaway, and a pair of runaways. This anthology features stories of a diverse and inclusive future by six up-and-coming indie authors. Case File #7: The One with All the Elephants by Jeannette BedardFlo doesn’t know what’s worse: the case she was just assigned or the new partner she has to work with. Jurassic Dark by SI CLARKEThere’s something … Read more

COMICS: Green Arrow’s Son Connor Hawke Comes Out as Ace

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Connor Hawke ACE

Green Arrow’s son Connor Hawke will come out publicly as asexual in a new comic that is part of the highly-anticipated DC Pride 2022 series. DC Comics will publish a new edition of its popular anthology series DC Pride on 31 May, just in time for Pride Month. The series will feature some of DC’s most notable queer characters and will debut the comic book giant’s newest LGBT+ hero – Connor Hawke. Hawke is the son of Oliver Queen – the original Green Arrow – and eventually takes over the mantle from his father, becoming the second Green Arrow. The … Read more

FOR READERS AND WRITERS: Ace Writers

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Asexual Ace Flag

FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: It’s International Asexual Awareness Day! Readers, who are your fave ace writers and characters? Ace writers, tell us about yourself and your work! Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

NEW RELEASE: The Circus Infinite – Khan Wong

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The Circus Infinite - Khan Wong

QSFer Khan Wong has a new queer space opera out (ace, bi, gay, poly, trans mtf): The Circus Infinite. A circus takes down a crime-boss on the galaxy’s infamous pleasure moon. Hunted by those who want to study his gravity powers, Jes makes his way to the best place for a mixed-species fugitive to blend in: the pleasure moon where everyone just wants to be lost in the party. It doesn’t take long for him to catch the attention of the crime boss who owns the resort-casino where he lands a circus job, and when the boss gets wind of … Read more

What the World Gets Wrong About Aromantic People

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Yasmin Benoit - Twitter

We talk a lot about sexual orientation, but we don’t talk nearly enough about romantic orientation – that’s something Yasmin Benoit is trying to change. Yasmin is an asexual and aromantic activist who is working tirelessly to make sure the world knows that not everybody experiences romantic attraction in the same way. Part of the challenge for activists like Yasmin is that huge swathes of the population still don’t understand what aromanticism is. Many don’t even realise there’s a difference between sexual and romantic attraction. Simply put, aromanticism describes people who feel little or no romantic attraction. Like all things … Read more